Re: NATLANG: Romany!

In a book I currently don't have with me, the author defined at least six or
seven dialectal groupings of Romany.

Unfortunately I can't recall the details, but it seemed to break down into the
Russian-Eastern European; Romanian; German-Middle European; French; Iberian;
Welsh; and English-Scottish.

And unfortunately Romany is one of the world's least studied and published
European languages ... ;)

Wesley Parish

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:42, you wrote:
> Depends which country's Romany you mean. British Romany tends to be spoken
> rather than written, and I guess this applies to a lot of other variants.
> But Britishers will have heard Del Boy in 'Only Fools and Horses' forever
> saying that something is "Cushty" - this was the way it was spelt in the
> subtitling - whereas I'd spell it 'Kushti' (Romany for "Good"). When I was
> little, some relatives used to offer me "Kooshies" - sweets. Certainly with
> BritRom there has been a lot (some would say too much) assimilation by
> English; and you shouldn't believe everything my fellow Norfolkian George
> Borrow wrote either.
> Mike
>
> > Talking about Romany, does anyone happen to know how to pronounce its
> > orthography?  I tried looking around the internet a while ago (it was
> > probably around Holocaust Memorial Day), but I couldn't find anything
> > about how to read it.  I think I was specifically looking for how to
> > pronounce "Porrajmos"(?), the Romany equivalent of "Sho'ah".
> >
> >
> > -Stephen (Steg)
> >   "dos iz nit der šteg."
>
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